twitteralert 0.0.2

A package to alert from follower info in Twitter

Twitter alert

Twitter alert is part of the twitter alert ecosystem that uses a custom sqlite database and the access to the twitter platform through an API to log and track a list of users and their activity in friendships (aka users that one acount follows).

For each change detected within the resolution of the tracked data, twitter alert makes a tweet (or prints into the console) the update.

Quick start

To install the package you can either download it from pip or clone this repository and install it locally.

# from pip
pip install twitteralert

Once installed, check that the installation was correct running

$ talert info --version
Debug mode is off
twitteralert version: 0.0.1

Then, assuming that you already have a friends database from twitterobserver (friends.sqlite) and a secrets.json file your API credentials for your twitter account you can just run the following.

talert friends -d friends.sqlite -S state.json -s secrets.json

Note that the state.json file if not present will be generated but containing the last query in the database. Thus, you will need to run the tobserver again to generate a new query. You can also potentially make a state file manually.

Usage

The excutable contains multiple subcommands.

• info -> displays information such as the version of the package
• friends -> reports updates in the friendships from the selected users, it can also tweet them directly

info

friends